THE EXTINCTION CRISIS
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THE EXTINCTION CRISIS


It’s frightening but true: Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals — the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We’re currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, it occurs at a natural “background” rate of about one to five species per year. Scientists estimate we’re now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day [1]. It could be a scary future indeed, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century [2].

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http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-animal-species


Why Thousands of New Animal Species Are Still Discovered Each Year

Every spring, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry releases a list of the top ten new animal discoveries, and this year’s is a great one, including a chicken-like dinosaura spiderthat cartwheels into any predator dumb enough to threaten it, and a nine-inch-long walking stick insect.
Luckily, even after 250 years of professionals documenting thousands of new plants and animals every year, the rate at which new species are discovered remains relatively stable. Somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000 new species are identified each year, with about half of those being insects. However, that number is somewhat misleading: it also includes the correction of taxonomic mistakes, movements from one family to another, and decisions that will end up being overruled in years to come.
The new species are scattered all over the globe, with animals from the top ten list hailing from Morocco, Australia, eastern China, central Mexico, and elsewhere. But where would you go if you wanted to find a brand new animal species?

[Image: image.jpg]The ‘Anzu wyliei’ dinosaur, dubbed the “chicken from hell”, discovered in North and South Dakota (Photo: Mark Klingler/Carnegie Museum of Natural History)

There are many scenarios that can lead to a new species being discovered. The archetypical researchers clad in multi-pocketed khaki clothing heading into the jungle certainly do locate new creatures, but they’re not the only ones.

“There are cases of new species being found in museum collections, where they were collected 50 or 100 years ago and at the time nobody looked at the specimens closely enough,” says Christopher Raxworthy, a curator in the herpetology department at the American Museum of Natural History, who frequently goes out on fieldwork expeditions to look for new reptiles and amphibians.

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Technology has led to even more animals being identified. New species today are regularly detected through DNA. Often, two species live relatively near to each other and look exactly alike, which means they were formerly categorized as only one genus. But analyzing their DNA shows enough dissimilarities in their genes to now classify them as separate species.
Zoologists at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. actually spent years being frustrated about their resident olinguitos’ inability to mate. But the olinguito is a small carnivore in the raccoon family, commonly confused with its identical-looking cousin the olingo. They were trying to mate the olinguito with an olingo, not realizing that it was an entirely different species.

That doesn’t mean the well-explored parts of the world have no surprises left for us: just last year, a new species of frog was discovered in New York City, of all places. However, if you want to discover a new animal, less-trodden areas are a better bet. The most rewarding spots tend to be the tropics, since there are a wider variety of plants and animals there than in temperate regions.

There are plenty of places in the tropics that haven’t been thoroughly sifted through, though. “Typically, if you were interested in finding new species, a very good thing to look at would be to understand where people have done research and surveys in the past, and then find the holes, the blank areas of the map that have been under-studied,” says Raxworthy.
The reasons why some places remain unexplored are not what you would expect. Inaccessibility, for example, is not really a problem in the modern age. Sure, there might not be any direct flights from a research institution to Motuo, China (no roads go there) or the desolate Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean (you can only get there with a six-day boat ride from an island off the coast of Madagascar), but that doesn’t bother contemporary researchers much.
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(03-01-2017, 02:48 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-animal-species


Why Thousands of New Animal Species Are Still Discovered Each Year

Every spring, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry releases a list of the top ten new animal discoveries, and this year’s is a great one, including a chicken-like dinosaura spiderthat cartwheels into any predator dumb enough to threaten it, and a nine-inch-long walking stick insect.
Luckily, even after 250 years of professionals documenting thousands of new plants and animals every year, the rate at which new species are discovered remains relatively stable. Somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000 new species are identified each year, with about half of those being insects. However, that number is somewhat misleading: it also includes the correction of taxonomic mistakes, movements from one family to another, and decisions that will end up being overruled in years to come.
The new species are scattered all over the globe, with animals from the top ten list hailing from Morocco, Australia, eastern China, central Mexico, and elsewhere. But where would you go if you wanted to find a brand new animal species?

[Image: image.jpg]The ‘Anzu wyliei’ dinosaur, dubbed the “chicken from hell”, discovered in North and South Dakota (Photo: Mark Klingler/Carnegie Museum of Natural History)

There are many scenarios that can lead to a new species being discovered. The archetypical researchers clad in multi-pocketed khaki clothing heading into the jungle certainly do locate new creatures, but they’re not the only ones.

“There are cases of new species being found in museum collections, where they were collected 50 or 100 years ago and at the time nobody looked at the specimens closely enough,” says Christopher Raxworthy, a curator in the herpetology department at the American Museum of Natural History, who frequently goes out on fieldwork expeditions to look for new reptiles and amphibians.

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Technology has led to even more animals being identified. New species today are regularly detected through DNA. Often, two species live relatively near to each other and look exactly alike, which means they were formerly categorized as only one genus. But analyzing their DNA shows enough dissimilarities in their genes to now classify them as separate species.
Zoologists at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. actually spent years being frustrated about their resident olinguitos’ inability to mate. But the olinguito is a small carnivore in the raccoon family, commonly confused with its identical-looking cousin the olingo. They were trying to mate the olinguito with an olingo, not realizing that it was an entirely different species.

That doesn’t mean the well-explored parts of the world have no surprises left for us: just last year, a new species of frog was discovered in New York City, of all places. However, if you want to discover a new animal, less-trodden areas are a better bet. The most rewarding spots tend to be the tropics, since there are a wider variety of plants and animals there than in temperate regions.

There are plenty of places in the tropics that haven’t been thoroughly sifted through, though. “Typically, if you were interested in finding new species, a very good thing to look at would be to understand where people have done research and surveys in the past, and then find the holes, the blank areas of the map that have been under-studied,” says Raxworthy.
The reasons why some places remain unexplored are not what you would expect. Inaccessibility, for example, is not really a problem in the modern age. Sure, there might not be any direct flights from a research institution to Motuo, China (no roads go there) or the desolate Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean (you can only get there with a six-day boat ride from an island off the coast of Madagascar), but that doesn’t bother contemporary researchers much.

And your point? These are not "NEW" species. They are just newly discovered species. And common sense should tell us a lot of them were wiped out before we ever knew they existed.
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(03-01-2017, 03:52 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 02:48 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-animal-species


Why Thousands of New Animal Species Are Still Discovered Each Year

Every spring, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry releases a list of the top ten new animal discoveries, and this year’s is a great one, including a chicken-like dinosaura spiderthat cartwheels into any predator dumb enough to threaten it, and a nine-inch-long walking stick insect.
Luckily, even after 250 years of professionals documenting thousands of new plants and animals every year, the rate at which new species are discovered remains relatively stable. Somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000 new species are identified each year, with about half of those being insects. However, that number is somewhat misleading: it also includes the correction of taxonomic mistakes, movements from one family to another, and decisions that will end up being overruled in years to come.
The new species are scattered all over the globe, with animals from the top ten list hailing from Morocco, Australia, eastern China, central Mexico, and elsewhere. But where would you go if you wanted to find a brand new animal species?

[Image: image.jpg]The ‘Anzu wyliei’ dinosaur, dubbed the “chicken from hell”, discovered in North and South Dakota (Photo: Mark Klingler/Carnegie Museum of Natural History)

There are many scenarios that can lead to a new species being discovered. The archetypical researchers clad in multi-pocketed khaki clothing heading into the jungle certainly do locate new creatures, but they’re not the only ones.

“There are cases of new species being found in museum collections, where they were collected 50 or 100 years ago and at the time nobody looked at the specimens closely enough,” says Christopher Raxworthy, a curator in the herpetology department at the American Museum of Natural History, who frequently goes out on fieldwork expeditions to look for new reptiles and amphibians.

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Technology has led to even more animals being identified. New species today are regularly detected through DNA. Often, two species live relatively near to each other and look exactly alike, which means they were formerly categorized as only one genus. But analyzing their DNA shows enough dissimilarities in their genes to now classify them as separate species.
Zoologists at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. actually spent years being frustrated about their resident olinguitos’ inability to mate. But the olinguito is a small carnivore in the raccoon family, commonly confused with its identical-looking cousin the olingo. They were trying to mate the olinguito with an olingo, not realizing that it was an entirely different species.

That doesn’t mean the well-explored parts of the world have no surprises left for us: just last year, a new species of frog was discovered in New York City, of all places. However, if you want to discover a new animal, less-trodden areas are a better bet. The most rewarding spots tend to be the tropics, since there are a wider variety of plants and animals there than in temperate regions.

There are plenty of places in the tropics that haven’t been thoroughly sifted through, though. “Typically, if you were interested in finding new species, a very good thing to look at would be to understand where people have done research and surveys in the past, and then find the holes, the blank areas of the map that have been under-studied,” says Raxworthy.
The reasons why some places remain unexplored are not what you would expect. Inaccessibility, for example, is not really a problem in the modern age. Sure, there might not be any direct flights from a research institution to Motuo, China (no roads go there) or the desolate Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean (you can only get there with a six-day boat ride from an island off the coast of Madagascar), but that doesn’t bother contemporary researchers much.

And your point? These are not "NEW" species. They are just newly discovered species. And common sense should tell us a lot of them were wiped out before we ever knew they existed.
Of course!
(But you are NOT going to win this one  Laughing ) 

We know that human behavior is killing off living things. Much different than natural selection allowing some living things to die out. 
The good news: We CAN correct it sometimes. DDT made Eagle eggshells so thin the chicks could not survive. Thanks in part, at least, to Racheal Carson, DDT was banned and now there are Eagles in the mountains near LA. 

And I think I saw a Dolphin last week in Bear Creek. Dolphin or Catfish...my eyes are getting a bit cloudy.
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(03-01-2017, 04:57 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 03:52 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 02:48 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-animal-species


Why Thousands of New Animal Species Are Still Discovered Each Year

Every spring, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry releases a list of the top ten new animal discoveries, and this year’s is a great one, including a chicken-like dinosaura spiderthat cartwheels into any predator dumb enough to threaten it, and a nine-inch-long walking stick insect.
Luckily, even after 250 years of professionals documenting thousands of new plants and animals every year, the rate at which new species are discovered remains relatively stable. Somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000 new species are identified each year, with about half of those being insects. However, that number is somewhat misleading: it also includes the correction of taxonomic mistakes, movements from one family to another, and decisions that will end up being overruled in years to come.
The new species are scattered all over the globe, with animals from the top ten list hailing from Morocco, Australia, eastern China, central Mexico, and elsewhere. But where would you go if you wanted to find a brand new animal species?

[Image: image.jpg]The ‘Anzu wyliei’ dinosaur, dubbed the “chicken from hell”, discovered in North and South Dakota (Photo: Mark Klingler/Carnegie Museum of Natural History)

There are many scenarios that can lead to a new species being discovered. The archetypical researchers clad in multi-pocketed khaki clothing heading into the jungle certainly do locate new creatures, but they’re not the only ones.

“There are cases of new species being found in museum collections, where they were collected 50 or 100 years ago and at the time nobody looked at the specimens closely enough,” says Christopher Raxworthy, a curator in the herpetology department at the American Museum of Natural History, who frequently goes out on fieldwork expeditions to look for new reptiles and amphibians.

Subscribe to our newsletter and get our latest, sent right to your inbox.

Technology has led to even more animals being identified. New species today are regularly detected through DNA. Often, two species live relatively near to each other and look exactly alike, which means they were formerly categorized as only one genus. But analyzing their DNA shows enough dissimilarities in their genes to now classify them as separate species.
Zoologists at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. actually spent years being frustrated about their resident olinguitos’ inability to mate. But the olinguito is a small carnivore in the raccoon family, commonly confused with its identical-looking cousin the olingo. They were trying to mate the olinguito with an olingo, not realizing that it was an entirely different species.

That doesn’t mean the well-explored parts of the world have no surprises left for us: just last year, a new species of frog was discovered in New York City, of all places. However, if you want to discover a new animal, less-trodden areas are a better bet. The most rewarding spots tend to be the tropics, since there are a wider variety of plants and animals there than in temperate regions.

There are plenty of places in the tropics that haven’t been thoroughly sifted through, though. “Typically, if you were interested in finding new species, a very good thing to look at would be to understand where people have done research and surveys in the past, and then find the holes, the blank areas of the map that have been under-studied,” says Raxworthy.
The reasons why some places remain unexplored are not what you would expect. Inaccessibility, for example, is not really a problem in the modern age. Sure, there might not be any direct flights from a research institution to Motuo, China (no roads go there) or the desolate Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean (you can only get there with a six-day boat ride from an island off the coast of Madagascar), but that doesn’t bother contemporary researchers much.

And your point? These are not "NEW" species. They are just newly discovered species. And common sense should tell us a lot of them were wiped out before we ever knew they existed.
Of course!
(But you are NOT going to win this one  Laughing ) 

We know that human behavior is killing off living things. Much different than natural selection allowing some living things to die out. 
The good news: We CAN correct it sometimes. DDT made Eagle eggshells so thin the chicks could not survive. Thanks in part, at least, to Racheal Carson, DDT was banned and now there are Eagles in the mountains near LA. 

And I think I saw a Dolphin last week in Bear Creek. Dolphin or Catfish...my eyes are getting a bit cloudy.

My goal is to discover a new dinosaur here in Oregon. I'll tame it and join the circus. Barnum and Bailey's probably looking for an act to replace their elephants so the future looks bright.
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Hopefully the damn bird that keeps taking up residence in my patio eaves and shitting on everything is next on the list.
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(03-01-2017, 06:03 PM)Cuzz Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 04:57 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 03:52 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 02:48 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-animal-species


Why Thousands of New Animal Species Are Still Discovered Each Year

Every spring, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry releases a list of the top ten new animal discoveries, and this year’s is a great one, including a chicken-like dinosaura spiderthat cartwheels into any predator dumb enough to threaten it, and a nine-inch-long walking stick insect.
Luckily, even after 250 years of professionals documenting thousands of new plants and animals every year, the rate at which new species are discovered remains relatively stable. Somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000 new species are identified each year, with about half of those being insects. However, that number is somewhat misleading: it also includes the correction of taxonomic mistakes, movements from one family to another, and decisions that will end up being overruled in years to come.
The new species are scattered all over the globe, with animals from the top ten list hailing from Morocco, Australia, eastern China, central Mexico, and elsewhere. But where would you go if you wanted to find a brand new animal species?

[Image: image.jpg]The ‘Anzu wyliei’ dinosaur, dubbed the “chicken from hell”, discovered in North and South Dakota (Photo: Mark Klingler/Carnegie Museum of Natural History)

There are many scenarios that can lead to a new species being discovered. The archetypical researchers clad in multi-pocketed khaki clothing heading into the jungle certainly do locate new creatures, but they’re not the only ones.

“There are cases of new species being found in museum collections, where they were collected 50 or 100 years ago and at the time nobody looked at the specimens closely enough,” says Christopher Raxworthy, a curator in the herpetology department at the American Museum of Natural History, who frequently goes out on fieldwork expeditions to look for new reptiles and amphibians.

Subscribe to our newsletter and get our latest, sent right to your inbox.

Technology has led to even more animals being identified. New species today are regularly detected through DNA. Often, two species live relatively near to each other and look exactly alike, which means they were formerly categorized as only one genus. But analyzing their DNA shows enough dissimilarities in their genes to now classify them as separate species.
Zoologists at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. actually spent years being frustrated about their resident olinguitos’ inability to mate. But the olinguito is a small carnivore in the raccoon family, commonly confused with its identical-looking cousin the olingo. They were trying to mate the olinguito with an olingo, not realizing that it was an entirely different species.

That doesn’t mean the well-explored parts of the world have no surprises left for us: just last year, a new species of frog was discovered in New York City, of all places. However, if you want to discover a new animal, less-trodden areas are a better bet. The most rewarding spots tend to be the tropics, since there are a wider variety of plants and animals there than in temperate regions.

There are plenty of places in the tropics that haven’t been thoroughly sifted through, though. “Typically, if you were interested in finding new species, a very good thing to look at would be to understand where people have done research and surveys in the past, and then find the holes, the blank areas of the map that have been under-studied,” says Raxworthy.
The reasons why some places remain unexplored are not what you would expect. Inaccessibility, for example, is not really a problem in the modern age. Sure, there might not be any direct flights from a research institution to Motuo, China (no roads go there) or the desolate Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean (you can only get there with a six-day boat ride from an island off the coast of Madagascar), but that doesn’t bother contemporary researchers much.

And your point? These are not "NEW" species. They are just newly discovered species. And common sense should tell us a lot of them were wiped out before we ever knew they existed.
Of course!
(But you are NOT going to win this one  Laughing ) 

We know that human behavior is killing off living things. Much different than natural selection allowing some living things to die out. 
The good news: We CAN correct it sometimes. DDT made Eagle eggshells so thin the chicks could not survive. Thanks in part, at least, to Racheal Carson, DDT was banned and now there are Eagles in the mountains near LA. 

And I think I saw a Dolphin last week in Bear Creek. Dolphin or Catfish...my eyes are getting a bit cloudy.

My goal is to discover a new dinosaur here in Oregon. I'll tame it and join the circus. Barnum and Bailey's probably looking for an act to replace their elephants so the future looks bright.

Wow! You are in luck!
I have one. Found the little tyke while Snipe hunting in the Thompson Creek watershed. Brought him home and raised him on Fruit Loops and sour mash and near full grown now. 
Does tricks. 
Clean.
Does NOT breath fire.

He does eat people, but always cleans up the mess. 

Terms can be arranged. (Prepare to pay interest)
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#8
(03-01-2017, 06:14 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 06:03 PM)Cuzz Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 04:57 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 03:52 PM)tvguy Wrote: And your point? These are not "NEW" species. They are just newly discovered species. And common sense should tell us a lot of them were wiped out before we ever knew they existed.
Of course!
(But you are NOT going to win this one  Laughing ) 

We know that human behavior is killing off living things. Much different than natural selection allowing some living things to die out. 
The good news: We CAN correct it sometimes. DDT made Eagle eggshells so thin the chicks could not survive. Thanks in part, at least, to Racheal Carson, DDT was banned and now there are Eagles in the mountains near LA. 

And I think I saw a Dolphin last week in Bear Creek. Dolphin or Catfish...my eyes are getting a bit cloudy.

My goal is to discover a new dinosaur here in Oregon. I'll tame it and join the circus. Barnum and Bailey's probably looking for an act to replace their elephants so the future looks bright.

Wow! You are in luck!
I have one. Found the little tyke while Snipe hunting in the Thompson Creek watershed. Brought him home and raised him on Fruit Loops and sour mash and near full grown now. 
Does tricks. 
Clean.
Does NOT breath fire.

He does eat people, but always cleans up the mess. 

Terms can be arranged. (Prepare to pay interest)

With all  the bad habits you've probably taught it??? No chance I'd take that off your hands. I want one that will at least fetch my slippers without drooling all over them and chewing the toes out.
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(03-01-2017, 06:24 PM)Cuzz Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 06:14 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 06:03 PM)Cuzz Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 04:57 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 03:52 PM)tvguy Wrote: And your point? These are not "NEW" species. They are just newly discovered species. And common sense should tell us a lot of them were wiped out before we ever knew they existed.
Of course!
(But you are NOT going to win this one  Laughing ) 

We know that human behavior is killing off living things. Much different than natural selection allowing some living things to die out. 
The good news: We CAN correct it sometimes. DDT made Eagle eggshells so thin the chicks could not survive. Thanks in part, at least, to Racheal Carson, DDT was banned and now there are Eagles in the mountains near LA. 

And I think I saw a Dolphin last week in Bear Creek. Dolphin or Catfish...my eyes are getting a bit cloudy.

My goal is to discover a new dinosaur here in Oregon. I'll tame it and join the circus. Barnum and Bailey's probably looking for an act to replace their elephants so the future looks bright.

Wow! You are in luck!
I have one. Found the little tyke while Snipe hunting in the Thompson Creek watershed. Brought him home and raised him on Fruit Loops and sour mash and near full grown now. 
Does tricks. 
Clean.
Does NOT breath fire.

He does eat people, but always cleans up the mess. 

Terms can be arranged. (Prepare to pay interest)

With all  the bad habits you've probably taught it??? No chance I'd take that off your hands. I want one that will at least fetch my slippers without drooling all over them and chewing the toes out.

Yeah, I don't think you are man enough for my guy!  Razz Razz
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(03-01-2017, 06:26 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 06:24 PM)Cuzz Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 06:14 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 06:03 PM)Cuzz Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 04:57 PM)Wonky3 Wrote: Of course!
(But you are NOT going to win this one  Laughing ) 

We know that human behavior is killing off living things. Much different than natural selection allowing some living things to die out. 
The good news: We CAN correct it sometimes. DDT made Eagle eggshells so thin the chicks could not survive. Thanks in part, at least, to Racheal Carson, DDT was banned and now there are Eagles in the mountains near LA. 

And I think I saw a Dolphin last week in Bear Creek. Dolphin or Catfish...my eyes are getting a bit cloudy.

My goal is to discover a new dinosaur here in Oregon. I'll tame it and join the circus. Barnum and Bailey's probably looking for an act to replace their elephants so the future looks bright.

Wow! You are in luck!
I have one. Found the little tyke while Snipe hunting in the Thompson Creek watershed. Brought him home and raised him on Fruit Loops and sour mash and near full grown now. 
Does tricks. 
Clean.
Does NOT breath fire.

He does eat people, but always cleans up the mess. 

Terms can be arranged. (Prepare to pay interest)

With all  the bad habits you've probably taught it??? No chance I'd take that off your hands. I want one that will at least fetch my slippers without drooling all over them and chewing the toes out.

Yeah, I don't think you are man enough for my guy!  Razz Razz

You sick bastard! I'm not into that bestiality stuff.   Twitch Laughing
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#11
(03-01-2017, 06:32 PM)Cuzz Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 06:26 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 06:24 PM)Cuzz Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 06:14 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 06:03 PM)Cuzz Wrote: My goal is to discover a new dinosaur here in Oregon. I'll tame it and join the circus. Barnum and Bailey's probably looking for an act to replace their elephants so the future looks bright.

Wow! You are in luck!
I have one. Found the little tyke while Snipe hunting in the Thompson Creek watershed. Brought him home and raised him on Fruit Loops and sour mash and near full grown now. 
Does tricks. 
Clean.
Does NOT breath fire.

He does eat people, but always cleans up the mess. 

Terms can be arranged. (Prepare to pay interest)

With all  the bad habits you've probably taught it??? No chance I'd take that off your hands. I want one that will at least fetch my slippers without drooling all over them and chewing the toes out.

Yeah, I don't think you are man enough for my guy!  Razz Razz

You sick bastard! I'm not into that bestiality stuff.   Twitch Laughing

OH GOD! I've been found out.  Embarrassed
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#12
(03-01-2017, 02:48 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-animal-species


Why Thousands of New Animal Species Are Still Discovered Each Year

Every spring, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry releases a list of the top ten new animal discoveries, and this year’s is a great one, including a chicken-like dinosaura spiderthat cartwheels into any predator dumb enough to threaten it, and a nine-inch-long walking stick insect.
Luckily, even after 250 years of professionals documenting thousands of new plants and animals every year, the rate at which new species are discovered remains relatively stable. Somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000 new species are identified each year, with about half of those being insects. However, that number is somewhat misleading: it also includes the correction of taxonomic mistakes, movements from one family to another, and decisions that will end up being overruled in years to come.
The new species are scattered all over the globe, with animals from the top ten list hailing from Morocco, Australia, eastern China, central Mexico, and elsewhere. But where would you go if you wanted to find a brand new animal species?

[Image: image.jpg]The ‘Anzu wyliei’ dinosaur, dubbed the “chicken from hell”, discovered in North and South Dakota (Photo: Mark Klingler/Carnegie Museum of Natural History)

There are many scenarios that can lead to a new species being discovered. The archetypical researchers clad in multi-pocketed khaki clothing heading into the jungle certainly do locate new creatures, but they’re not the only ones.

“There are cases of new species being found in museum collections, where they were collected 50 or 100 years ago and at the time nobody looked at the specimens closely enough,” says Christopher Raxworthy, a curator in the herpetology department at the American Museum of Natural History, who frequently goes out on fieldwork expeditions to look for new reptiles and amphibians.

Subscribe to our newsletter and get our latest, sent right to your inbox.

Technology has led to even more animals being identified. New species today are regularly detected through DNA. Often, two species live relatively near to each other and look exactly alike, which means they were formerly categorized as only one genus. But analyzing their DNA shows enough dissimilarities in their genes to now classify them as separate species.
Zoologists at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. actually spent years being frustrated about their resident olinguitos’ inability to mate. But the olinguito is a small carnivore in the raccoon family, commonly confused with its identical-looking cousin the olingo. They were trying to mate the olinguito with an olingo, not realizing that it was an entirely different species.

That doesn’t mean the well-explored parts of the world have no surprises left for us: just last year, a new species of frog was discovered in New York City, of all places. However, if you want to discover a new animal, less-trodden areas are a better bet. The most rewarding spots tend to be the tropics, since there are a wider variety of plants and animals there than in temperate regions.

There are plenty of places in the tropics that haven’t been thoroughly sifted through, though. “Typically, if you were interested in finding new species, a very good thing to look at would be to understand where people have done research and surveys in the past, and then find the holes, the blank areas of the map that have been under-studied,” says Raxworthy.
The reasons why some places remain unexplored are not what you would expect. Inaccessibility, for example, is not really a problem in the modern age. Sure, there might not be any direct flights from a research institution to Motuo, China (no roads go there) or the desolate Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean (you can only get there with a six-day boat ride from an island off the coast of Madagascar), but that doesn’t bother contemporary researchers much.

God I hope you are embarrassed for this post, I'm embarrassed for you.
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1/3 of the species in the ocean will die, 1/3 of the species on and will die and 1/3 of the species of birds will die.
I read that somewhere.
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(03-01-2017, 08:19 PM)chuck white Wrote: 1/3 of the species  in the ocean will die, 1/3 of the species on and will die and 1/3 of the species of birds will die.
I read that somewhere.

Chuck, not everything you read on the back of the cereal box is true.  Smiling
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(03-01-2017, 09:01 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 08:19 PM)chuck white Wrote: 1/3 of the species  in the ocean will die, 1/3 of the species on and will die and 1/3 of the species of birds will die.
I read that somewhere.

Chuck, not everything you read on the back of the cereal box is true.  Smiling

Or the front. I mean just look at Bruce Jenner! Won 5 gold medals.. I freaking doubt it.

Besides I put sugar on my sugar pops. That label can't be right
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(03-01-2017, 09:08 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 09:01 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 08:19 PM)chuck white Wrote: 1/3 of the species  in the ocean will die, 1/3 of the species on and will die and 1/3 of the species of birds will die.
I read that somewhere.

Chuck, not everything you read on the back of the cereal box is true.  Smiling

Or the front. I mean just look at Bruce Jenner! Won 5 gold medals.. I freaking doubt it.

Besides I put sugar on my sugar pops. That label can't be right

I thought you put beer on sugar pops?
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(03-01-2017, 09:37 PM)chuck white Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 09:08 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 09:01 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 08:19 PM)chuck white Wrote: 1/3 of the species  in the ocean will die, 1/3 of the species on and will die and 1/3 of the species of birds will die.
I read that somewhere.

Chuck, not everything you read on the back of the cereal box is true.  Smiling

Or the front. I mean just look at Bruce Jenner! Won 5 gold medals.. I freaking doubt it.

Besides I put sugar on my sugar pops. That label can't be right

I thought you put beer on sugar pops?

Naw, TVg ain't the kind of guy to waste beer. Milk, meat, veggies maybe, but never beer.

And I agree. The label is goofy. Another couple of tablespoons of sugar never hurt a thing. I was near 14 before most of my teeth rotted out. I think we had bad water where I grew up.
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(03-01-2017, 09:37 PM)chuck white Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 09:08 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 09:01 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 08:19 PM)chuck white Wrote: 1/3 of the species  in the ocean will die, 1/3 of the species on and will die and 1/3 of the species of birds will die.
I read that somewhere.

Chuck, not everything you read on the back of the cereal box is true.  Smiling

Or the front. I mean just look at Bruce Jenner! Won 5 gold medals.. I freaking doubt it.

Besides I put sugar on my sugar pops. That label can't be right

I thought you put beer on sugar pops?
Well yes of course but only in the mornings. Not with a late night snack. Tonight I'm having Lucky Charms with orange juice instead of the normal chocolate milk.
For some reason you really have to shovel the sugar on.
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(03-01-2017, 09:44 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 09:37 PM)chuck white Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 09:08 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 09:01 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 08:19 PM)chuck white Wrote: 1/3 of the species  in the ocean will die, 1/3 of the species on and will die and 1/3 of the species of birds will die.
I read that somewhere.

Chuck, not everything you read on the back of the cereal box is true.  Smiling

Or the front. I mean just look at Bruce Jenner! Won 5 gold medals.. I freaking doubt it.

Besides I put sugar on my sugar pops. That label can't be right

I thought you put beer on sugar pops?

Naw, TVg ain't the kind of guy to waste beer. Milk, meat, veggies maybe, but never beer.

And I agree. The label is goofy. Another couple of tablespoons of sugar never hurt a thing. I was near 14 before most of my teeth rotted out. I think we had bad water where I grew up.
HA! you had water? We had to lick the dew off blades of grass in the morning just to get by.
I remember Ma and Pa throwing away stuff that said "just add water".
We had Kool-aid right out of the pack.
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(03-02-2017, 03:10 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 09:44 PM)Wonky3 Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 09:37 PM)chuck white Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 09:08 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(03-01-2017, 09:01 PM)Wonky3 Wrote: Chuck, not everything you read on the back of the cereal box is true.  Smiling

Or the front. I mean just look at Bruce Jenner! Won 5 gold medals.. I freaking doubt it.

Besides I put sugar on my sugar pops. That label can't be right

I thought you put beer on sugar pops?

Naw, TVg ain't the kind of guy to waste beer. Milk, meat, veggies maybe, but never beer.

And I agree. The label is goofy. Another couple of tablespoons of sugar never hurt a thing. I was near 14 before most of my teeth rotted out. I think we had bad water where I grew up.
HA! you had water? We had to lick the dew off blades of grass in the morning just to get by.
I remember Ma and Pa throwing away stuff that said "just add water".
We had Kool-aid right out of the pack.

Laughing Thank you Monty Python.
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